Dearest Internet,

I pinched a nerve the other day and spent 2 crippled days on my back - I couldn’t draw or paint or even roll over. But now I’m back to about 90%, so I am taking full advantage of drawing and painting and rolling over.

School is done for the quarter as of last week. When we come back in January we have 4 weeks on portraiture based off the block-in (slow, classical style of working) and then we get into more expressive figurative work after that. Teacher also said I can start…